Comcomly, more correctly Coboway, Clatsop Leader, known to
Lewis and Clark honored and respected by the founding Astorians, The
Northwesters and the Hudson's Bay Fur Traders. The captains made
him a gift of Fort Clatsop when they departed
March 1806
and he apparently occupied
the structure for several years. His grandson, Silas B. Smith,
assisted Olin D. Wheeler in locating the fort site in 1899.